The Resource Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA, Tim Weiner
Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA, Tim Weiner
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- Summary
- Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security. For sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world--when it did not succeed, it set out to change the world instead. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA, based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 702 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- "In the beginning, we knew nothing" : the CIA under Truman, 1945-1953 -- "A strange kind of genius" : the CIA under Eisenhower. 1953 to 1961 -- Lost causes : the CIA under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968 -- "Get rid of the clowns" : the CIA under Nixon and Ford, 1968 to 1977 -- Victory without joy : the CIA under Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, 1977 to 1993 -- The reckoning : the CIA under Clinton and George W. Bush, 1993 to 2007
- Intelligence must be global and totalitarian -- The logic of force -- Fight fire with fire -- The most secret thing -- A rich blind man -- They were suicide missions -- A vast field of illusion -- We have no plan -- CIA's greatest single triumph -- Bomb repeat bomb -- And then we'll have a storm -- We ran it in a different way -- Wishful blindness -- Ham-handed operations of all kinds -- A very strange war -- He was lying down and he was lying up -- Nobody knew what to do -- We had also fooled ourselves -- We'd be delighted to trade those missiles -- Hey, boss, we did a good job, didn't we? -- I thought it was a conspiracy -- An ominous drift -- More courage than wisdom -- The beginning of a long slide downwards -- We knew then that we could not win the war -- A political H-bomb -- Track down the foreign communists -- What the hell do those clowns do out there in Langley? -- USG wants a military solution -- We are going to catch a lot of hell -- To change the concept of a secret service -- A classic fascist ideal -- The CIA would be destroyed -- Saigon signing off -- Ineffective and scared -- He sought to overthrow their system -- We were just plain asleep -- A free-lance buccaneer -- In a dangerous way -- He was running a great risk -- A con man's con man -- To think the unthinkable -- What are we going to do when the wall comes down? -- We had no facts -- Why in the world didn't we know? -- We're in trouble -- The threat could not be more real -- The dark side -- A grave mistake -- The burial ceremony
- Isbn
- 9780385514453
- Label
- Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA
- Title
- Legacy of ashes
- Title remainder
- the history of the CIA
- Statement of responsibility
- Tim Weiner
- Subject
-
- trueSecrecy in government
- trueMisadventures
- United States -- History -- 1945-
- trueEspionage
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- History
- trueIntelligence officers
- trueIntelligence service -- United States -- History
- trueSpies
- trueHistory Writing -- Spies and Spying
- trueUnited States -- History -- 1945-
- Intelligence service -- United States -- History
- trueCIA -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security. For sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world--when it did not succeed, it set out to change the world instead. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA, based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence.--From publisher description
- Summary
- This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For sixty years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation while never disclosing its blunders to the American public. Now a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter uses the CIA's own archives to reveal the CIA as a deeply flawed organization
- Award
-
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, 2007.
- National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2007.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2007
- YALSA Outstanding Book for the College Bound, 2009.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 211280
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Weiner, Tim
- Dewey number
- 327.1273009
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- JK468.I6
- LC item number
- W44 2007
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- Intelligence service
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- the history of the CIA
- Label
- Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA, Tim Weiner
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- "In the beginning, we knew nothing" : the CIA under Truman, 1945-1953 -- "A strange kind of genius" : the CIA under Eisenhower. 1953 to 1961 -- Lost causes : the CIA under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968 -- "Get rid of the clowns" : the CIA under Nixon and Ford, 1968 to 1977 -- Victory without joy : the CIA under Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, 1977 to 1993 -- The reckoning : the CIA under Clinton and George W. Bush, 1993 to 2007
- Intelligence must be global and totalitarian -- The logic of force -- Fight fire with fire -- The most secret thing -- A rich blind man -- They were suicide missions -- A vast field of illusion -- We have no plan -- CIA's greatest single triumph -- Bomb repeat bomb -- And then we'll have a storm -- We ran it in a different way -- Wishful blindness -- Ham-handed operations of all kinds -- A very strange war -- He was lying down and he was lying up -- Nobody knew what to do -- We had also fooled ourselves -- We'd be delighted to trade those missiles -- Hey, boss, we did a good job, didn't we? -- I thought it was a conspiracy -- An ominous drift -- More courage than wisdom -- The beginning of a long slide downwards -- We knew then that we could not win the war -- A political H-bomb -- Track down the foreign communists -- What the hell do those clowns do out there in Langley? -- USG wants a military solution -- We are going to catch a lot of hell -- To change the concept of a secret service -- A classic fascist ideal -- The CIA would be destroyed -- Saigon signing off -- Ineffective and scared -- He sought to overthrow their system -- We were just plain asleep -- A free-lance buccaneer -- In a dangerous way -- He was running a great risk -- A con man's con man -- To think the unthinkable -- What are we going to do when the wall comes down? -- We had no facts -- Why in the world didn't we know? -- We're in trouble -- The threat could not be more real -- The dark side -- A grave mistake -- The burial ceremony
- Control code
- 20983615
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 702 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780385514453
- Lccn
- 2007004077
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other control number
- 9780385514453
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocm82367780
- (OCoLC)82367780
- Label
- Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA, Tim Weiner
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- "In the beginning, we knew nothing" : the CIA under Truman, 1945-1953 -- "A strange kind of genius" : the CIA under Eisenhower. 1953 to 1961 -- Lost causes : the CIA under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968 -- "Get rid of the clowns" : the CIA under Nixon and Ford, 1968 to 1977 -- Victory without joy : the CIA under Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, 1977 to 1993 -- The reckoning : the CIA under Clinton and George W. Bush, 1993 to 2007
- Intelligence must be global and totalitarian -- The logic of force -- Fight fire with fire -- The most secret thing -- A rich blind man -- They were suicide missions -- A vast field of illusion -- We have no plan -- CIA's greatest single triumph -- Bomb repeat bomb -- And then we'll have a storm -- We ran it in a different way -- Wishful blindness -- Ham-handed operations of all kinds -- A very strange war -- He was lying down and he was lying up -- Nobody knew what to do -- We had also fooled ourselves -- We'd be delighted to trade those missiles -- Hey, boss, we did a good job, didn't we? -- I thought it was a conspiracy -- An ominous drift -- More courage than wisdom -- The beginning of a long slide downwards -- We knew then that we could not win the war -- A political H-bomb -- Track down the foreign communists -- What the hell do those clowns do out there in Langley? -- USG wants a military solution -- We are going to catch a lot of hell -- To change the concept of a secret service -- A classic fascist ideal -- The CIA would be destroyed -- Saigon signing off -- Ineffective and scared -- He sought to overthrow their system -- We were just plain asleep -- A free-lance buccaneer -- In a dangerous way -- He was running a great risk -- A con man's con man -- To think the unthinkable -- What are we going to do when the wall comes down? -- We had no facts -- Why in the world didn't we know? -- We're in trouble -- The threat could not be more real -- The dark side -- A grave mistake -- The burial ceremony
- Control code
- 20983615
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 702 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780385514453
- Lccn
- 2007004077
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other control number
- 9780385514453
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocm82367780
- (OCoLC)82367780
Subject
- trueCIA -- History
- trueEspionage
- trueHistory Writing -- Spies and Spying
- trueIntelligence officers
- trueIntelligence service -- United States -- History
- Intelligence service -- United States -- History
- trueMisadventures
- trueSecrecy in government
- trueSpies
- United States -- History -- 1945-
- trueUnited States -- History -- 1945-
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- History
Genre
Included in
- trueLos Angeles Times Book Prizes: History
- trueNational Book Awards: Nonfiction
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Nonfiction: 2007
- trueYALSA Outstanding Books for the College Bound - History and Cultures: 2009
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